Originally posted by: zombie84
OCP's Classic Edition might be done well to be remade using the September disks, since the quality will be much closer. Will be interesting to see how close they match up to see if this is viable.

The quality loss that I'm referring to is encoding quality. Ocpmovie's Star Wars: Classic Edition was reencoded to fit on a single layer. The stars look like weird jpeg block artifacts and there are other encoding artifacts everywhere. The quality of the original work done is great, but ruined by squeezing it down to a single layer disc.. also, I disagree with some of the changes, as I'm sure others here do. And, the sound quality is poor (I guess it was recorded from the laserdisc?) So the edition has some problems.

I'm proposing a system that allows choice in what edits take place, what postprocessing is done, menus/special features, and how the result is output. The idea is to give more choices, not less (so thanks for mentioning those other output formats, any format that mencoder/ffmpeg are capable of outputting would be automatically available).

Those numbers (15 frames/0.5 sec) were taken from the mpgtx man page. I admit to little knowledge of film editing, but I didn't want to spend a bunch of time figuring things in detail out for a project nobody was interested in.

If there is interest, I will do the research needed to make sure it turns out well. The last thing we'd want is to make a bunch of patches then find out that cutting them in caused the sound to go out of sync, glitches in playback, etc. I remember some posts by Ocpmovie where he had trial and error time resyncing the audio for Return of the Jedi. My system will have to figure it out automatically, so there are certainly some technical hurdles to overcome.

If the loss of credit/fame for a patch is a concern: there can be a comments field for each patch for describing the patch, methods used (whatever, really), there can be a standard template, and the author of the edit will be right at the top.